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TORONTO- David Sylvian, the former frontman for British new wave band "Japan" went solo in the mid '80s. He's moved from pop to what can only be called "David Sylvian music." His success isn't chart topping, but it's highly original, influential, soul searching music. It's been so long since his last record, people thought he'd drifted right off the planet in fact he's simply been living a normal life.

LAURIE: I read that the five years in which you've recorded this album were the five of the best years you've ever had. What's going on in your life?

DAVID: Well, I've made a move to America, met my wife, we had children, our first child being born in 1993. I really wanted to focus on the first three years of our life and that's what I did. Ingrid and I just focussed in on her life and the music took second place to that. There were times I thought that I'd never returned to music, things were so good. I felt like I could walk away from music. It was the first time I felt that in my life.

LAURIE: When you look back at the beginning and look at the first things you did with Japan, what do you see about yourself in that work?

DAVID: Well, I don't spend much time looking back. Initially I thought I was using music to project myself out into the world. Being a very shy and introverted person, it was a way of communicating with the world, a need for contact and engaging with the world was one of the important things about music at that time for me.

There's something about an escape. Being that shy I thought I had to hide behind the imagery, the appearance and also the music. I wasn't just hiding myself from the world but from myself as well.

LAURIE: If there's something I associate with your music, it's a kind of yearning. There's a kind of ache. I can't imagine being in that space all the time what's that like?

DAVID: I don't think I exist in that space all the time, I go there when I work. It's there. It's a yearning, a longing. What is it for? It can be interpreted in so many levels and maybe I don't want to pin it down too much because it's up to the individuals to make out what it is we hunger for, we yearn for.